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THE FOOTBALL GAME. 



Cbaractere. 

Harry Sherwood, Junior — Half-back on the Barton 
Team. 
His climn ; an indiscriminate as- 
pirant for literary honors. 
A Vernon College girl ; sister of 
< ,"" Charles, and secretly engaged to 
Harry. 
Major Henry Sher- 
wood U. S. V. '61, Hariy's Father. 

Michael The man of all work. 



Charles Easton.. 
Eveline Easto^^c 



Time. — The present age of football worship, on the morning 
of the great game between Barton and Lyle Colleges. 



ll^^OLf 5"^ 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME 



Scene. — Parlor betiveen the rooms of Sherwood and 

E ASTON, at Barton College. 

(Harry Sherwood discovered pacing up and down his 
room. Enter Charles Easton. ) 

Charles. You said it was something important, and I 
left a sonnet that was nearly finished. I had all the rhj' mes 
in a line down the page, and they were right, and I was try- 
ing to make some sense fit them. Now, wliat do you want ? 
Those idiots that edit the annual had been destroying my 
temper for an hour before you called me. They looked at 
their boots and were afraid to speak up, but finally they 
got it out that my poems were old-fashioned — that they 
must be either entirely realistic or utterly unintelligible. 

Harry. No matter about your sickly poems — I want to 
tell you sometliing — er — um — I've had a letter from my 
father, fiercer than ever against foot-ball. 

Charles. Why, you told me that ! 

Harry. Yes, I know — that isn't it. It was "after the 
ball was over." 

Charles. See here ! I won't stand that ! Here you 
have been for fifteen minutes wandering from your sub- 
ject. One would think you were in the senate making a 
tariff. 

Harry. Well, here goes. She 

Charles. What, another girl? Is it serious? . . . You 
don't answer. Then it is. Hold on a minute, I'll work 
this in — everything goes to pot. (He gets a stylographic 
pen and pajyer, and ivaits excitedly) 

Harry, (musing) How she dances ! She seems the 
very soul of rhytlun. 

Charles, (disgusted) O pshaw ! That won't do. Too 
poetical ! 

3 



4 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 

Harry, {not noticing him) We went outside, because 
all her dances were engaged, and we — tliat is, I — were . 
afraid her partners would find her. We sat on the steps 
of our lodge, and we could see the lights glancing through 
the window of the ball-room, and the swaying of the 
waltzes reached us ; and she said, " How strange that the 
moon should be over there ! And how bright I " And we 
looked, and through the trees came a gray light, and be- 
hind the black chapel tower a pink cloud brightened, and 
it was the morning. 

Charles, {scribbling) Yes, yes 

Harry. She had torn the sleeve on her right arm, and 
was pinning it. I helped her — her hand 

Charles. Yes. Go on. 

Harry, {suddenly observing him) See here, what are 
you up to ? 

Charles. Oh, nothing, nothing. 

Harry. She w^as such a thorough lady — of course it 
was only chance— an instant — and I said {losing himself), 
" See how tawdry the lamps are below these flushing 
heavens. Tiie joys of jny past life are just such feeble 
lights before the coming of my sun — and, dear, the day is 
close at hand — see, it has changed the whole world about 
us already." 

Charles, {scribbling) They'd say that was too roman- 
tic, but I guess it'll go. 

Harry, {aivakening) What do you mean by scribbling 
there as if you were a reporter on a heresy case ? Well ? 

Charles. "^ Don't be excited, old man. I'm going to 
write a realistic novel, that's all. You don't care, do you ? 
Why, you've been through this sort of thing twenty times 
before. I was just taking notes, 

Harry. You know I'm half-back on the team ? 

Charles. Yes, wliy ? 

Harry. You give me those notes, or I'll — I'll — {advances) 

Charles. Here they are — here they are ! But why do 
you care ? I don't see what you should mind. Why, the 
girl would be pleased if I let it out that I drew my heroine 
from her. Why, you look serious ! 

Harry. I love her. 

Charles. Whew! That one jewel without any setting 
is too dazzling, Hal. It looks like a diamond instead of a 
rhine-stone. Put some lesser gems around it ; say, " I 
love her dearly, sweet little girl : " or, " I love her — better 
than au}' of the others ; " but just that — it rather scares me. 

Harry. I mean it, just as I said it. The one word. 

Charles. Do I know who she is? 

Harry. Yes, indeed. 

Charles. By Jove ! Do I like her? You haven't gone 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 5 

and — say, do I like her ? You liaven't been poaching on 
my preserves? 

Harry. Well, I should rather think so ! 

Charles. Well, who in— not Nelly, I hope ! Oh, — er— 
that is — Of course, if she is the one — she's a little flirt, but 
I've no doubt 

Harry. Nelly ! No, no, old man ! It is — your sister. 

Charles. What ! Eva ? Now what in the world did 
you see in lier ? 

Harry. Bat ! Mole ! 

Charles. Why, I should never think of falling in love 
with old Eve — why you're mad ! 

Harry. What blind dolts brothers are ! 

Charles. She's the finest girl on earth, of course. My 
dear old boy, I'm overjoyed ! You know that. Only — I 
can't understand, you know, why you should care for old 
Eve, you know. 

Harry. Well, I don't know^ And I'd have you know 
that I consider your sister Eveline — that — that I consider 
— if she will have such a fellow as I am — mind, I don't say 
I'm worthy of her — but if she could ever see — if she could 
— say — if — if — why 

Charles. You're shaking, old man. You'll never be 
able to play if you work yourself up like this. 

Harry. Charlie ! You don't know — she said she did ! 
She said she cared for me — think of it ! Just think of it ! 

Charles. I give up. He won't think about the game. 
Poor fellow ! What strange idiots this love makes men ! 

{Enter Michael.) 

Michael. Masther Sherwood, wdio d'ye think I see 
gittin' aff the train — who d'ye think, sir? 

Harry. I'm sure I don't know. Some man from town 
with a bill. Stop gaping there like a chicken with the pip. 

Michael, Ach, sir ! 'Twas j^our honored father, sir, 
going that fast to the ball grounds as if there was a glass 
of whiskey a-fiying ahind of his mouth ; and it's caught 
me he would, only I dodged in a twink, and I'm all in a 
quiver, yit. 

Charles. Well, it was a iiarroic escape. 

Harry. Don't ! This is serious. He must be coming 
on to arrest me, so that I shan't play. He is so set against 
foot-ball. Dearest old boy in the world, but as quick- 
tempered as a hornet. 

Charles. Hal. you go dress, you've not got too much 
time, {exit Harry) Mike, you go down to the field to 
meet the Major, and walk him round a while, and get him 
back here after we're gone, {exit Michael) 

I guess I'd better go help Hal. {exit into room R.) 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 

{A knock at the door.) 

Charles. (f7^om within) Get out ! Go to the devil ! 

Eveline, {eiiteritig) You're exceeding rude, Charles 
Easton, but I know your voice. 

Charles. (ivithin) Hello, sis ! Look around and 
amuse j^ourself. We'll be out in a jiffy. (Sounds of al- 
te rca tio n with in . ) 

Eveline. What an extraordinary room ! (Sounds 
louder. ) 

Charles, (unthin) All right, all right ! (enters and 
ivhisks various things into the coal scuttle.) 

Eveline. O Cliarlie, what a queer frieze ! Why, it is 
the little rubber things you put on chairs so they won't 
scratch the floor. How did you ever come to have so 
many ? 

Charles. Don't really know, my dear, (aside) Jolly 
old beer corks ! (aloud) Eveline, Hal's in trouble. 

Eveline. Oh ! Is he ill— or injured ? 

Charles. Would you care so very much, sis? 

Eveline. Of course,— he couldn't play ball ! 

Charles. Tender modern woman ! No, my dear, he is 
hale and hearty, but his respected parent is going to pre- 
vent him from playing. He will be here shortly, and 
when he finds Hal is gone he will spin to the field and seize 
on him. Hal's not quite of age, you see. 

Eveline. Horrid ! 

Charles. Well. I must go to lielp him. 

Eveline, (alone) Dear old Harry ! I wish I could do 
something to help him out of his trouble. What a profane 
man to stop a foot-ball game ! (lifts his pliotograj^h) 
Here he is — so neat and trim and spotless ! How I do like 
that in so manly a man. He's never stiff, but yet always 
as if he'd just stepped out of a band-box. (enter Harry, 
horrible for the game: long hair, nose guard, etc.) 

Eveline, (shrieking) Monster ! 

Harry, (opening his arms) Come here and let me be 
sure of j-ou. 

Eveline. No ! You're horrible ! 

Harry. Horrible ? 

Eveline. Yes ! Positively gory ! 

Harry. Oh! That's all that prevents you? 

Eveline. That's enough. 

Harry. Come on, then. The spots are all red ink. Ah ! 

Eveline. O Hal ! I've heard about your fatlier's com- 
ing. He must not stop that game. I'll stay here and keep 
him. Do you think I can ? 

Harry. He has no eye if you can't. But, dear. I must 
tell you one thing. He doesn't know we're engaged. He 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 7 

has old-fashioned ideas about women, and if T should tell 
him you were at Vernon College he'd never want me to 
marry you .This has often bothered me. 

Eveline. No matter now— we haven't time. I al^vays 
think that everything's going to turn out right. V^en 1 
go to work and try to make it. Goodbye, dear. Win the 
game ! Win the game ! 

{Enter Charles Easton.) 

Goodbye, big brother. I am going to face the foe and 
hold him captive. a„T.T> 

Charles. Good for you. Eve. {exeunt Harr\ Sher- 
wood and Charles Easton. ) , . , x 

Eveline. First move? Stop the clock, {does so,) 

{Enter Michael.) 

Michael. Major Sherwood's coming, Miss. ^ 

Eveline. O me ! I must smoothe my hair ! 1 Ins is 
Ciiarlie's room, {exit into room l. Enter Major Sher- 

^mjOR Sherwood. They don't seem to be here, Mike. 
That foot-ball is a most inhuman, barbarous performance. 
No sense in it. Those boysjustsmasheachother for tun be- 
fore a crowd of debased fools. If it were war, now, or anv 
necessitv.-but this wanton slaughter-no. my so" sj^aU 
never d6 it ! I'll not allow it. I'll just go on to that held 
with the police. He'll find out whether he can defy his 
father's wishes. We'll see— we'll see. 

Michael. Must have just stepped out for a minute. Mi . 
Easton's sister is here, sir. Miss Eveline. She's 3ust stepped 
into her brother's room when you came m. Shall 1 call 

^^Major Sherwood. No. {looks about the room and per- 
ceives things in the scuttle and lifts them) Those are 
pretty good guns, Mike. I don't know where the boy got 
'em. They look new. 

Michael. Oh, I can tell ye, sir. 

Major Sherwood. Nothing Hal doesn t want me to 
know, sir. I do not spy on my son. , , , , . ^ , 

Michael. O no, sir ! Bless your soul, he'd just as leave. 
You'd like to hear, sir, Master Harry's that smart. You 
know as how he painted a lot of picters last summer, sir . 
Well sir, he took 'em to a friend of mine as is an auc- 
tioneer, and he says, "If ye'll name 'em they 11 sel — 
being as they was powerful bad, sir. So we named 'em 
Mastli Harry and I. He made the names, and I signed 
Jem, he said^as me signing was as bad as a real genius s 
And he made all sorts o' fancy titles. There was "Until 



8 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 

He Comes." That was Susan, sir, sitting on the pier. He 
called it by Dii Roule, pupil of Braine. Then there was 
Valversy and Jansen and Dervventand lots of other artists, 
but the best of all was Ernest Danvers, deceased. Sure, 
the paintin' was that bad, sir, I asked 'ini should we burn 
it, but Master Harry said no, and he took black and 
smutched it, sir, and splashed it wild like, and then lie 
put varnish on, sir, and rubbed it on the carpet, if ye plaise, 
sir, and got it all hair}^ ; and that was old, sir, '* A Noct- 
urne," by Ernest Danvers, deceased. An' we went to the 
auction, sir, and I was to start 'em at a fiver, an' they all 
went, — all but Ernest Danvers, deceased, an' I thought 
sure we was stuck, when up jumps Master Harry, and says 
he, " Is that a real Danvers ? " " Yes," sajs the auctioneer, 
'' gentlemen, a real Danvers, a-goin for a five ;" and Master 
Harry he bids right fierce, but the people they would have 
it. and we got the most of all for Ernest Danvers, deceased. 
Major Sherwood. That boy takes after me in his 
brains. My mother used to say if I was cornered I could 
creep through a knot-hole. 

{Enter Eveline.) 

Eveline. Major Sherwood ? {exit Michael) 

Major Sherwood. Yes. I suppose you were the de- 
signer of all these pretty cushions and things. 

Eveline. O dear, no ! Other fellows' sisters, sir. 
Charles doesn't care for my work. 

Major Sherwood. I suppose you work for the other 
fellows. 

Eveline. Perhaps. I can make the most comfortable 
cushions you ever saw. 

{Enter Michael, icho motions.) 

Excuse me a minute, {she steps aside with Michael) 

i\IiCHAEL. Game's begun. Lyle got the kick off and 
advanced their half back through the center, gaining ten 
yards. I'm afraid for Barton, ma'am, and tiieir only hope's 
in Master Sherwood. 

Eveline. Well, what happened next ? 

Michael. Came to tell you then. 

Eveli^je. Oh, go back again, quick, and sta\' all the 
time. No, come straight here and tell me. {returns to 
Major Sherwood) 

Michael. If that isn't a lady's order I never hear one. 
(exit) 

Major Sherwood. You and Michael seem to be great 
friends. 

Eveline. O yes. he's so quaint. He never says things 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 9 

quite like other people. I was asking him if the very un- 
popular student next door had gone, and he said, " ' E 'as, 
Miss, and many a dry eye followed 'im." 

Major Sherwood. Well, Miss Eveline, I wish I could 
stay here and talk to you. 

Eveline. O do, Major Sherw^ood. After seeing nothing 
but professors for so long (I'm a college girl, you know) a 
Loyal Legioneer is .so delightful ! 

Major Sherwood. Miss Eveline ! It is about impos- 
sible to resist after such a compliment, and from such lips, 
but I really must go. 

Eveline. Oh ! (aside) I must not be too eager. 
(aloud) I'm sorry, (holds out lie?' hands) Oh. but wait 
a minute and let me mend that shocking hole in your 
glove. I'm like Mrs. Robinson Crusoe — I always carry a 
little needle case in my pocket. 

Major Sherwood. Fine idea. Thank you. (gives her 
the glove) 

Eveline, (seiving) I'd rather do any sort of plainsew- 
ing than fancy work — I just despise that. 

(Enter Michael.) 

(Aside) I must know ! (aloud) Michael, listen ! Are 
many flowers being taken to the lady who has the ball 
to-night ? 

Michael, (grinning) Yes'm, and as I came round by 
O'Grady's a man put on the bar tons of coal. 

Eveline. Oh. how perfectly lovely ! 

Major Sherwood, (to Michael) What for? (to 
Eveline) Why so lovely ? 

(Michael and Eveline together) Because 

Eveline. Ah ! Go on, Michael 

Major Sherwood. No. hold on ! You tell me why a 
man's paying for drink with coal was lovel}-. 

Eveline. Oh — ah — why — because the drink would make 
him colder. 

Major Sherwood. You needn't speak, Michael. If 
your reason is as bad as that I won't hear it. (receives his 
glove) Thank you very much. Is that clock right ? 

Eveline, (aside) I will not lie. (aloud) Michael ! 
(aside) The Irish lie so cheerfully it seems like a sort of a 
joke, (aloud) Is that clock right ? 

Michael. Just at this minute it bates old Father Time 
himself for consistent regularity, (exit) 

Major Sherwood, (sitting doum) I've got a clock with 
a moon in it. I inherited it from my grandfather. That 
is, it came from just his part of the country, and it's the 
kind 1 knew the old gentleman would have liked, so I 



10 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 

bought it, and presented it to his gl^ost. Of course he 
didn't need it now, so I naturally inherited it. Well, I set 
my moon by the " Tribune," good republican time, but a 
mugwump professor staying with me turned cuckoo and 
began mussing with it. He said 'twould be a day short in 
two days. So that morning I rose earl}^ and went down to 
make sure it wasn't, and I was just poking it along, to 
keep up republican reputation, when I heard a shout, and 
there was the professor down for a like purpose. I thought 
the joke was on me, but I saw he'd forgotten his cravat in 
his haste, so I said, " You'd better stay upstairs till you're 
dressed, Professor," and he was so crestfallen he w^ent 
meekly off. And, speaking of ties — my own awry — I'll 
straighten it. (goes into room L. Eveline shoves the 
clock on 15 minutes) 

(Enter Michael.) 

Michael. First half over — furious close. Lyle's fast 
runner, Loomis, nearh^ did for Barton. Once he went for 
the right end and then turned and gained seven yards. 
They passed the ball to James, and he fumbled it, and 
Lyle's kicker tried his best, and their punt sailed along the 
wind right near our goal. But Master Harry caught it, 
and he raced down like a cyclone, and he struck into Lyle's 
men like a caterpillar — puH, I mean — and he won back a 
lot o' ground, I tell ye. How them tally-hos did roar! 
Time was called. Neither scored. 

Eveline. Oh, go back, go back ! And bring me word 
quickly ! (exit Michael) 

Eveline, Lyle beat us last year, and oh, how they have 
crowed like turkey-cocks — no, that isn't what I mean — like 
cockerels. Well, I knew it was cocky somehow. 

(Enter Michael.) 

Michael, (exhausted) Second half begun. Lyle tried 
a wedge. I thought I'd a right to come back, as you'd be 
waitin', I just heard that awful crunch as I left. 

Eveline, Oh ! Oh ! You must go back and come again 
before the Major returns. 

Michael. Och ! Mem ! The breath o' me 's nigh flown 
to heaven ! 

Eveline. Oh, but do ! do ! Say you will— there's a 
dear ! 

Michael. Sure, an' it 'ud be a liotter place I'd not go to 
afther that! (exit running) 

Eveline (looking at door c) Dare I lock him in? 
(crosses) Dare I? I dare— (scarfs to turn key.) No ! 
When he got out he wouldn't like me, and he might pre- 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME. H 

vent Harry from— persuade Harry that— No, he couldn't 
do that ; but, anyway I shouldn't have a nice— father-in- 
law. 

{Enter Michael, breathless.) 

Michael. Gained almost nothing by wedge ! Ugh — 
ah — Barton's kicker ki — kicked — k — kicked — 1 — ow p — 
punt— 

(Re-enter Major Sherwood.) 

Major Sherwood. I was interested in my son's books. 
Strangest discordance between covers and interiors. 
Solemn old Integral Calculus— opened it— thought I'd seen 
crooked — looked on cover again — by Jove ! had *' Three 
men in a Boat " inside. What's the matter with Michael ? 
He seems astonished. 

Michael. It's Miss Eveline just took the breath out o' 
me body telling me you was a teetotaller, sir, and thinks 
I, looking at that fricassee tliere (jjoints to cork frieze) how 
differences do run in families ! 

Major Sherwood. That was a mistake, Miss Eveline, 
that was a mistake, {exit Michael) Do you know, I 
don't trust that clock? Where is my watch? Well, I 
must have left it at home. Pshaw ! I think I'll examine 
that clock's internal economy, {advances) 

Eveline, {aside) I must stop him ! {aloud) Oh ! 
Should women vote? 

Major Sherwood, {stopping) Certainly not ! Women 
are illogical ! They are so easily deceived by what appears 
right without investigating it further. Their attention is 
so quickly diverted from the subject on which they are 
engaged. They allow themselves to be influenced by any 
man who is bright and attractive and good-looking. 
They're too unsuspicious ; they would neA'er suspect that a 
pleasant-spoken fellow might be pleasant-spoken just to 
gain some end of his own. Tliey'd be sure to think it was 
because they were so interesting. Then they're always 
illogical — always reason from a special case which proves 
nothing. Why, I knew one woman 

{Enter Michael ivith a glass of lager.) 

Eveline, {aside) I won't tell him one woman 's a spe- 
cial case. 

Major Sherwood. Thank j^ou, Michael, you're a man 
of discernment. As ovir old corporal used to say, " I wish 
my neck was as long as the Androscoggin river, and twice 
as crooked." {drinks very slowly) 

Eveline, {aside to Michael) Well ? 



L.ofC. 



12 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 

Michael. Master Harry's made a wonderful run, Miss, 
but he's fell and been trampled on. and he's hurt. 

Eveline. Oh. 1 must go to him ! 

Michael. The boss would go too. Miss. 

Eveline. O yes ! Is he much hurt ? 

Michael. I don't know, Miss. 

Eveline. Oii ! 1 won't go ! He may go on. We must 
win ! 

Michael. I was just a-sayin' to Miss Eveline I had a 
right to bring her somethin' nice too. But I couldn't 
make her feel as happy as you, sir, without I brought her 
wan o' thim beautiful new opery cloaks, I see the leddies 
have, all loined with vermin. 

Eveline. Michael ! Ermine. 

Michael. Och, ermine, is it? Wal, I thought 'twas a 
horrid name, but I thought as how it come from thim 
little black things a-spoilin' the nice white av it. Sure ye 
never can tell what a leddy '11 take a notion to. (Major 
laughs) 

Eveline, {a side) Oii ! Harry, Harry ! Go quick and 
see ! {exit Michael) 

Major Sherwood. Are you strong-minded, Miss Eve- 
line ? 

Eveline. Oh, very ! 

Major Sherwood. You don't look it ! Ah,— that's a 
compliment. 

Eveline. Indeed! 

Major Sherwood. I suppose you're modern, though. 
Analyzing my mind ? These analysts ! T\\ey think they 
know how to deceive a man — a kitten could deceive them. 
Why, I was coming out from New York with two of your 
modern young women, antl a man in front of us put his 
hand up to liis face and kept it there. They began a 
subtle analysis of the reason. One talked in Meredithram- 
bics. She said : " He does that, because, bewildered by 
physical nearness of many Imman beings, the touch of his 
own flesh to Ids own flesli gives him vital self-cognizance, 
and removes all other mortals to star distances." Her friend 
was a Tiieosophist (should be called I-osophist). She said : 
'* Possibly he holds his hand before his eyes to shut out 
an overwhelming rush of knowledge of identical surround- 
ings in a former state." I happened to sit where I could 
see the poor man. He was scratching his nose ! And I 
suppose the strong-minded lady would never marry ? No 
matter how many gentlemen's hearts were wrecked ? 

Eveline. On one condition. 

Major Sherwood. Condition ! What have we come 
to ? Women used to be glad enough when a good fellow 
was able to take care of them. What is your condition ? 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 13 

That he knows Greek enough and English enough to use 
double negatives onl}^ in the right tongue ? 

Eveline. No. 

Major Sherwood. What is it ? 

Eveline. That I love him. 

Major Sherwood. Good, good ! Mending my other 
glove, eh ? Forgive me, my dear, but I wish my son had 
seen you before — some one else. 

Eveline. What ! Is your son engaged ? 

Major Sherwood. So I've been told— not by him, 
though. Rascal ! 

Eveline. Indeed ! 

Major Sherwood. Yes, he doesn't take after me in 
good taste. He picked out a spectacled college girl — I 
suppose she's spectacled, anyway. I know she'& a carroty- 
headed skinny goractus. 

Eveline. Who told you that? {enter Michael) O 
Major, do think up an army story for me — I love them so ! 
Michael, come here a minute. 

Michael. Oh, he's gone on play in', Miss, and I wish 
you could liear the cheerin' ! And on the next down Lyle 
made a bad fumble, and Master Harry he had l\is eyes 
wide open and he snatched tlie ball and ran nearly forty 
yards like tlie winds of the autumn, and was at last thrown 
out o' bounds. This brought the ball down close to their 
goal, and we tried our captain, but the men was too thick 
there ; and then they called Master Harry, and he went 
through at left tackle for a touch down after fifteen 
minutes of play. His goal kick was a good un, and 
Barton lias s(;ored. {exit) 

Major Sherwood. Well, it was when we were down at 
Morris Island. I had a command in Fort Wagner, and the 
Johnnies were over across the marsh. There were some 
chaps down there from the Christian Commission ; some 
of 'em were very good men, but one '' coon " that came 
round us, — well if you had bouglit him for what lie was 
worth, and sold him for what he thought he was worth, 
you'd have made a fortune on the transfer. He'd been 
very shy of us since the shells began to drop, but the Rebels 
hadn't been firing for some time, so I suppose he thought 
it was safe and as I looked across the interior of the fort 
there I saw the Pious One. Ho was standing l)y my friend 
Cuscaddin (Cus. for short, and a mighty fitting name) 
who was sitting on an empty shell box with a big sandwich 
in one hand and a tract in the other. He had taken one 
big bite out of the sandwich. Just then I heard boom from 
the Rebel batterv, I knew it was their ten-inc;h gun and I 
stopped stock-still, and waited. In a second came the 
shell, swish-swish over my head, struck in the sand of the 



14 THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 

fort about as far from me as that oliair, ploughed a big 
trench, " ricasshed " over tlie parapet and down onto the 
beach below, where it exploded. Of course it drove up a 
great cloud of dust and eartli and I couldn't see mj- friend 
at all. When the dust rolled away there he laj- on his 
back with the tract and the bitten sandwich, one in each 
hand. No sign of tlie Pious One ; he had got into the bomb 
proof quicker 'n scat. First I thought Cus was dead, but 
when I got nearer I saw and heard he wasn't. He had liis 
mouth chuck-full of sand and was spitting and swearing 
about as liard as he could. As I came up he raised the tract 
and looked around for tiie vanished Pious. 

" Spt, spt," says old Cus, '• I want spt — cuss this blankety 
sand {here he read the title of the tract) — '' I want to go 
to a better world " — spt. By Jove, that fellow didn't seem 
in a hurry to get there ; was the first darned galloute to 
' cover ' from tiie shell." 

{Enter Michael.) 

Michael, {aside to Eveline) Lyle's got a touch-down 
and kicked a goal, and as I left their men were flj'ingdown 
the field, and they were cheering like mad, and I'm afraid 
we're beaten again. Must go back, (exit) 

Eveline, {aside) Oh, we can't — we mustn't be beaten 
again, {distant sounds of cheering) {aloud). Hark! 
Is that the Barton yell? Oh, it was, it was! {gives the 
yell) 'Rah ! rah-rah — Rah ! rah-rah — Barton bar-Barton 
— Rah ! rah-rah ! 

Major Sherwood. What do you mean ? 

Eveline. No matter. They're over — won ! Listen ! 
Listen ! {they hear the yell of " Lyle ! Lyle .'") 

Major Sherwood. I believe they're playing ball. I be- 
lieve — Hal is playing ball ! I believe — you know Hal is 
playing ball ! ! {seizes his hat.) 

Eveline. They are not through — you cannot go. 

Major Sherwood. Pardon me ! 

Eveline. Oh! {she faints) 

Major Sherwood. IMichael ! Michael ! Oh, the very 
devil ! He's gone to that cursed game ! I can't leave her 
this way, alone, {he applies ivater to her head) Poor 
girl ! Pretty little lady ! Ah ! This is too long — I be- 
lieve she's shamming. 

{Enter Michael.) - 

Michael. O wurra, wurra ! Miss Eveline, Barton's 
lost ! The men were .so rattled they've fumbled every- 
thing ! 

Eveline, Oh 1 No ! {leaps up) 



THE FOOT-BALL GAME. 15 

Major Sherwood. Goodbye. 

Eveline, (ivildly) Stop him ! 

Michael. I durna. (exit Sherwood) 

Eveline. Oh. we're lost ! Everything's gone now. 
He'll ruin our only chance ! (weeps) He'll stop Hal from 
playing. My fault ! (cheering HjUliout) Those odious 
Lyles, how they crow ! How rude of them ! Hark ! I do 
believe it's our own dear boys rejoicing. O, shout louder ! 
Oh, it is — it is ! (croicd icitliout : ''Barton! Barton! 
What's the matter ivith Sherwood? He's all right. Who's 
all right 9 Sherwood ! ! ") 

(Enter Major Sherwood, talking excitedly with Charles 
Easton. ) 

Major Sherwood. Yes, sir, yes. I got there just in 
time to see that run. By Jove ! That boy's got the old 
fighting spirit— got it from his old dad ! 

Charles. He just won that game ! 

Major Sherwood. He did — he did ! 

(Enter Harry, supported by Michael.) 

Ah, Miss Eveline, you ought to be proud of your brother's 
room-mate. 

Eveline. Hal ! My Hal ! Are you hurt? 

Major Sherwood. Well, I'll be— Have I any head or 
not? I do believe 

Harry, (embracing her) Not one bit, little girl. 

Major Sherwood. Hal, my boy ! You're a trump, sir, 
you're a trump. We think alike, sir. This is the very girl 
I would have chosen for you. She'll rule you, sir, I do be- 
lieve it. She knows how to get 'round your old father 
already. 

Harry. O sir ! (takes his father's hand, and puts his 
other arm around Eveline, who puts her head on his 
shoulder. Croicd, ivithout : " Whafs the matter with 
Sherwood ? He's all right " !) 

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220 Turned Heads 

221 A Match in the Dark 

222 Advice to Husbands 

223 Siamese Twin? 

224 Sent to the Tower 

VOL, XXIX. 

225 Somebody Else 
2:i6 Laiiies' B'attle 

227 Art of Acting 

228 The Lady of the Lions 

229 The Rights of Man 
2.30 My Husband's Ghost 

231 Two Can Play at that 

Game 

232 Fighting by Proxy 

2.33 Unprotected Female 

234 Pet of the Petticoats 

235 Forty and Fifty [book 

236 Who Stole the Pocket- 
•.(37 My Son Diana [sion 

238 Unwarrantable Tntrn- 

239 Mr. and Mrs. White 

240 A Quiet F.nmily 



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VOL. XXXIIL 
V57 20 Minutes with a Tiger 

258 Miralda; or, the Justice 
of Tacon 

259 k Soldier's Courtship 

260 Servants by Legacy 

261 Dying for Love 

262 Alarming Sacrifica 

263 Valet de Shi.m 
264Nlchola» Mekleby 

VOL. XXXlV. 

265 The Last of the Pigtails 

266 King Rene's Danghter 

267 The Grotto Nvmph 

268 A Devilish Good Jokt 

269 A Twice Told Tale 

270 Pas de Fascination 
v71 Revolutionary Soldier 

272 A Man Without a Head 
VOL. XXXV. 

273 The Olio, Parti 

274 The Olio, I'art 2 

275 The Olio, Part 3 [ter 

276 The Trumpeter's Daugh- 

277 Seeing Warren 

278 Green Mountain Boy 

279 That Nose 

280 Tom Noddv'.s Secret 
VOL. XXXVL 

281 Shocking Events 

282 A Regular Fix 
•583 Dick Turpin 
2s4 Young Sc.imp 

285 Young Actress 

286 Call at No. 1—7 
1287 One Touch of Nature 

288 Two B'hoys 

VOL. xxxvn. 

2>'9 All the World's a Stage 
•j90 Quash, or Nigger Prac- 

291 Turn Him Out [tice 

292 Pretty Girls of Stillberg 

293 Angel of the Attic 

294 CircumstanoesalterCases 

295 Katty O'Sheal 

296 A Supper in Dixie 
VOL. XXXVIIL 

297 Ici oil Parle Francnls 

298 Who Killed Cock Robin 

299 Declaration of Independ- 

300 Heads or Tails fence 

301 Obstinate Family 

302 My Aimt 

303 Tliat Rascal Pat 
.304 Don Paddy de Baz.an 

VOL. XXXIX, [ture 
.305 Too Much for Good Na- 

306 Cure for the Fidgets 

307 Jack's the Lad 

308 Much Ado AboutNothlng 

309 Artful Dodger 

310 Winnihg Hazard 

311 Day's Fishing f&c. 

312 Did you ever send your, 
VOL, XL. 

313 An Iri.'^hinan's Maneuver 

314 Cousin Fannie 

315 'Tis the Darkest Hourbe- 

316 Masqueriide [fore Dawn 

317 Crowding the Season 

318 Good Night's Rest 

319 Man with theCarpetBag 

320 Terrible Tinker 



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